Re: commit 3661261f breaks arm64

[Leif Lindholm]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 09:58:56PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> В Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:33:59 +0000
> Leif Lindholm <address@hidden> пишет:
> 
> > commit 3661261fe17a8fe19681073889b5b36ec1ee823d,
> > "Always add -msoft-float to avoid compiler generating float
> > arithmetics." breaks the arm64 build.
> > 
> > -msoft-float is not a valid command line option for aarch64 (as far as
> > I can see, it is technically a target-specific option which just
> > happens to exist for most targets - including arm).
> > 
> > This setting will need to be conditionalised somehow.
> > An option that works for arm64 is -march=armv8-a+nofp+nosimd.
> > 
> > Would something like this be an acceptable workaround?:
> > 
> > diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> > index a3bca06..c99e1ea 100644
> > --- a/configure.ac
> > +++ b/configure.ac
> > @@ -678,7 +678,11 @@ fi
> >  # that floats are a good fit to run instead of what's written in the
> >  # code.
> >  # Given that floating point unit is disabled (if present to begin
> >  # with)
> >  # when GRUB is running which may result in various hard crashes.
> > -TARGET_CFLAGS="$TARGET_CFLAGS -msoft-float"
> > +if ( test "x$target_cpu" = xarm64 ); then
> 
> Why subshell?

Brainless cargo culting to look similar to the preceding $target_cpu
checker, which actually does something relevant with its subshell.

If I drop that, is that an acceptable fix?
 
> > +  TARGET_CFLAGS="$TARGET_CFLAGS -march=armv8-a+nofp+nosimd"
> > +else
> > +  TARGET_CFLAGS="$TARGET_CFLAGS -msoft-float"
> > +fi
> >  
> >  # By default, GCC 4.4 generates .eh_frame sections containing unwind
> >  # information in some cases where it previously did not. GRUB doesn't
> >  # need
> > 
> > /
> >     Leif
> > 
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